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Your Esdras II includes the whole of Ezra and Nehemiah but (as far as I can see) nothing else. Where can I read Esther in your translation?

Nehemiah and Esther seem to be missing. Possibly others. You don't seem to be following any of the usual canonical orders.

I agree with @biblestudent78. It probably only happened once, and that one time was probably a few days before the Crucifixion.

Yes, agreed. We have no certain knowledge either way. I find the case for "castrated" more convincing, that's all.

Yes, definitely, and so also in the case of Paul, who has gone a step further by adding a mildly sarcastic edge. What clinches the argument for me is the close connection with circumcision in the preceding verse. One surgical operation leads on to the next. Brothers and sisters, if I am still...

Correction: εὐνουχίζω (eunouchizo)

Here is one example of the replies I had been planning to send to the twenty-seven observations on your list. In fact it’s the only one that I got as far as writing out at full length, since the information I discovered about this one turned out to be both exceptionally abundant and...

We ran into a unfortunate and regrettable difficulty. The root of the matter is that our shared interest in the Greek NT arises from different concerns. My primary interest is in finding the best English wording to translate the Greek Biblical terminology, while yours is in selecting the best...

I'm sorry to hear your bad news. Translation in general, and Bible translation in particular, is a subject that interests me greatly.

I’m slowly working my way through your list but there’s quite a significant difference between your approach to the translation question and mine. Two significant differences, in fact. First, as you repeatedly state in your posts #493-497, your main criteria for judging which of the two...

First, my warmest thanks for doing so much work on my behalf. When I asked for “a few” passages from the ESV, I was thinking of something like three or four. But you have produced no fewer than twenty-eight, counting the two halves of #3 separately! I was not only astounded to see the length of...

Two questions: 1. What does "modern" mean here? Anything later than 1611? 2. Could you please list a few particularly "corrupt" passages you have found in the ESV?

None of the above. If you had listed it, I would have voted for “Nowhere,” meaning that it is no longer in existence. The Babylonian exile began when Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem in or around 587 BC. That seems to have been the occasion when the Ark of the Covenant was taken away from the...

Hesuchia is one of a cluster of three closely related words, a noun, a verb, and an adjective, all three having to do primarily with calm, quietness, and the avoidance of any kind of disturbance. How the three words are translated, in practice, in English Bibles can vary quite considerably. In...

Now I've found it. It's John 12:32. In the KJV, And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all *men* unto me, But where did you find the word "judgment," in any translation of this verse? Or even in the original Greek?

@frederickdoc, when you give the reference as John 12, is that the number of the chapter or the verse? If it's chapter 12, which verse is it? Or if it's verse 12, which chapter is it?

If you're interested, here's a website that shows all the main textual variations: greekcntr.org/collation/index Alan Bunning, who seems to be the owner/ operator of the site, is a professor of computer science who also has a degree in Biblical Greek.

Correction: I mistakenly wrote "a few words after"; in fact it's the very next word in the Greek text.

I have an idea it may be Jude 4, where the Greek plural asebeis (impious or godless) requires an English noun to go with it, in this case "men" in the KJV or "ones" in some more recent translations. This comes a few words after krima, meaning "judgment" or, in the KJV, "condemnation."

A useful word list for anyone attempting to learn NT Greek. The 311 words listed here, each occurring 50 or more times, account for a total number of occurrences adding up to over 110,000, or very nearly 80 percent of the overall NT word count, usually stated as 138,020. The website also gives...